On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Venkatraman S <venka...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What's the intention of the course? The structure of the course would
> > depend on that methinks. Is it to
> >  - Give the students some programming skills so that they can use them
> > if needed for their actual work.
> >  - Appreciate the finer subtleties of what goes on during programming
> > so that they can become better managers/decision makers.
> >
> > The latter would be considerably harder and it wouldn't really be CP-101.
> >
> > For the former, I think a basic language introduction (say 1/4th of
> > the course) followed by intense exercise driven training on 'useful'
> > things would be nice. Similar to Zed Shaw's  "Learn Python the hard
> > way" (http://learnpythonthehardway.org/). The exercises should be
> > complex enough to force the people to make some design decisions so
> > that they learn to "program". Too often, fibonacci number programs are
> > considered good examples and that totally cripples someone trying to
> > study the language.
> >
>

Agree with Noufal. The course should be tailored to how we expect them to
use it later on.

The goal shouldn't be to make them programmers. I would think it should
focus on helping them solve bits and pieces problems that they might
encounter later on.

For most MBA programs, that would probably be quants - statistics,
probability, simulation, forecasting, modeling.

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Siddharta Govindaraj
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